Best known for her role
of Akane Yashiro in Godzilla
Against Mechagodzilla (2002), model turned
actress Yumiko Shaku has been a popular in Japan since
arriving on the scene. In 2000, Shaku won Square's "Aya
Brea Look-Alike"
contest, were contestants posed as the protagonist (Aya
Brea) of Squaresoft's Parasite Eve games. The
next year, Shaku started her career as an actress with
the film Princess Blade. 2002 saw Shaku doing
voice work for an animated film, and starring as the
lead in Masaaki Tezuka's Godzilla
Against Mechagodzilla (2002). Following her successful
appearance in the long going Godzilla series, Shaku would
go on to star in Ryuhei Kitamura's Sky High TV
series in 2003.